On the bottom right we find a Debug / Temp monitoring LED next to the SATA connectors. ECS includes four SATA 3Gb/s connectors and four SATA 6Gb/s connectors, colored white and gray respectively. I like the fact that these connectors are mounted on the side of the board - this goes a long way to help with cable management.

The back I/O panel consists of the following, from left to right: Clear CMOS button, PS/2 Keyboard / Mouse connector, two USB 2.0 ports, four additional USB 2.0 ports, two eSATA ports, dual LAN ports, two more USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports and five audio ports as well as an Optical S/PDIF output.

The back of the board is relatively plain as most are.

Let's move ahead and take a look at a few of the additional features that ECS has implemented with this board.